There are plenty of top offensive duos (and sometimes trios) in today’s NFL. A majority of them are typically a QB/WR combo, but the Buffalo Bills have one of the best QB/RB duos with Josh Allen and James Cook.
Tonight, they will go up against an extremely tough Minnesota Vikings defense that has been pushing opponents around this entire season. However, Buffalo's offense has been lighting up the scoreboard on opponents so we are in for a real nice treat.
Bills' offense must run through Josh Allen & James Cook
When this duo gets going, they are near impossible to stop. Cook is averaging over 5 yards per carry and when Allen scrambles out of the pocket, he does some major damage to defenses. Even though the Vikings have a heavy blitzing defense, they are allowing 116 rushing yards per game which sets up a great matchup for both Allen and Cook in terms of running the ball.
Buffalo has only had 2 games where they didn't rush for 100 yards, and there's been 2 games where they rushed for over 200 yards. Even though the Bills have no problem ripping the ball down the field through the air, but the primary focus should be establishing the run to set up for the play action. That's Buffalo's biggest key for the offense.
If the Bills focus on the rushing attack, there is a great chance that Bills Mafia will see both Allen and Cook each reach career milestones on the ground.
Josh Allen & James Cook set to achieve the same milestone in Week 9
According to the Buffalo Bills' PR team, Allen comes into this game with 4,991 career rushing yards and Cook is sitting at 4,966 career rushing yards. There is a real possibility that both of these stars will surpass 5,000 career rushing yards.
Both of them are already in the Top 5 in franchise history in rushing yards, which is unreal to think about since Allen is right in the middle of his prime and Cook is at the frontend of his prime.
In addition with Allen, if he reaches 5,000 career rushing yards in this game, he will join Lamar Jackson, Michael Vick, Cam Newton, and Russell Wilson as the only QBs in history with atleast 5,000 rushing yards.
With Minnesota's run-defense being a bit of a liability, and the risk that they take with the consistent blitzing, the Bills would be wise to establish the run and get both Allen and Cook going. Maybe even throw Ray Davis and Ty Johnson into the mix as well to throw Minnesota off-balance.
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